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Excerpt from De Zieke Reiziger, or Rambles in Java and the Straits, in 1852
The following pages contain the record of a hurried visit to the Straits and the Island of Java in 1852. The Diary was not originally in tended for publication, either in the form in which it now appears, or under any other, but was written solely for the Author's own amusement, and to fill up an idle hour or two, when other resources of employment or recreation were not within his reach.
The Journal has no pretensions to literary merit, and is only now published at the solicitation of friends, who have urged upon the Author that in the absence of any work whatever of the natureof a Hand Book relative to the Straits and Java, even the crude notes of De Zicke Reiziger, or the Invalid Traveller, would not be without their use, particularly at the present time, when through the arrangements lately concluded with the Penin sular and Oriental Company, the chief port of Java has been brought within twelve days sailing distance of the Hooghly.
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